The garment industry in India occupies a very important place. It is amongst the earliest sectors that evolved in the country. This industry caters to one of the basic needs of a person and has immense significance in improving the quality ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Garment, Apparel
Wal-Mart, an American multinational retail corporation, is recalling donkey meat snack products sold at some of its Chinese outlets after it was found that they contained DNA of other animals. The retailer stated that it is withdrawing ...
Tags: Wal-Mart, Donkey Meat, Snack Products
In 2009, Mitsubishi Electric contacted one of its dealers, Mannix Electrical in South Australia, telling the reseller it was discounting too much – $200 – on a 7.1-kilowatt air conditioner. This model generally retailed for ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric
High flying Apple Australia, the company that tried to sell a 3G tablet with a 4G name, has been brought down a notch today, having been forced to make court enforceable undertakings to the ACCC that it will improve its consumer practices ...
Tags: Apple Australia, Consumer Law, ACCC
Leading international luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo has won an important victory in the battle against counterfeiting. The Southern District Court of New York, where the Florentine company, last January, had filed its civil lawsuit ...
Australia's consumer watchdog has started legal proceedings against Reebok Australia over misleading claims about its EasyTone shoes. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said today (18 December) it has instituted ...
Tags: Reebok, shoes, misleading
The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors involved in the Trainor Glass Company bankruptcy case has recently recovered more than $140,000 from former business partners of the Alsip, Ill.-based glazing company in an effort to repay ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Glass
Fonterra, a New Zealand-based dairy co-operative, has said that it could face a legal challenge from French dairy major Danone over an infant formula contamination scare. The company had discovered a potentially fatal ingredient in a ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, dairy
A food science journal has retracted a French study linking genetically modified foods to tumors and organ failure in rats that went viral on the Internet. Elsevier, the publisher of the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicity, said it was ...
The Anapol Schwartz personal injury law firm has announced that a $2.5bn proposed settlement was submitted for the DePuy Orthopaedics Articular surface replacement (ASR) hip implant litigation in a Toledo, Ohio federal court. The ...
Tags: Metal-on-Metal Hip, Medicine
Supermarkets should drop their “dodgy discounts and misleading multi-buys” and be more open with consumers who are increasingly worried about rising food prices, according to consumer watchdog Which? Slip up in the shops: ...
Tags: supermarket, guilty, dodgy, discount
Medical device giant Johnson & Johnson has reportedly negotiated a settlement that will bring an end to over 7,500 lawsuits from patients who received the company’s all-metal hip implants. For many of these patients, complications ...
Tags: J&J, Hip Implant, $4 Billion
Hearts must have sank at 58.com and Qunar Cayman Islands late last month when a report from short seller Muddy Waters sent shares at the US-listed Chinese firm NQ Mobile plummeting by 47%. The two firms, both based in China, planned to list ...
Tags: Chinese Listings, Investors
IBM has withdrawn from a fierce legal battle over a $600m CIA cloud computing contract, leaving the deal to fall to Amazon. IBM withdrew its bid following legal action it took against Amazon's own bid, which IBM claimed did not meet the ...
Tags: IBM, software, Computer Products
"OMG, I wish I'd never heard of this job, let alone sold it!" Sound familiar? It's August and you now have to make good on all those promises you made when you got the project. The refrain from above was after a particularly trying day ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration